Aug 26, 2026
The migration problem isn't the data
I asked a coach what would actually stop him switching platforms. I expected data export. His answer was finding exercise videos for the uncommon movements he programmes.
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Aug 19, 2026
Getting Google out of the page load
Altcha instead of reCAPTCHA, self-hosted Umami instead of Analytics, fonts off the CDN. Why the font swap is the one people miss — and why it's faster now anyway.
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Why I built the API in Rust when it wasn't the optimal choice
Slower to write than anything I already knew, and a compiler that won't let me cut corners. The honest reasoning behind picking Rust for a solo project.
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Why our TypeScript types come from Rust
Specta generates the client types from the API's own Rust structs, so the mobile app and web dashboard can't drift from what the API actually returns.
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Six months building hiignite: Rust, Expo, and one typed contract
Mobile app, web dashboard and API as one monorepo — why Rust and Axum for the API, and the Specta-generated type contract that killed mobile/web mismatch bugs.
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